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  Course Description
Course Name : Cage Aquaculture

Course Code : SUF311

Course Type : Optional

Level of Course : First Cycle

Year of Study : 3

Course Semester : Fall (16 Weeks)

ECTS : 3

Name of Lecturer(s) : Prof.Dr. SUAT DİKEL

Learning Outcomes of the Course : Explain to Cage system specifics and their installation, maintenance and repair

Mode of Delivery : Face-to-Face

Prerequisites and Co-Prerequisites : None

Recommended Optional Programme Components : None

Aim(s) of Course : obtain to knowledge about aquacultural cage systems

Course Contents : Fish culture cage systems, and their building, aim of use the cage systems, maintanance and repeiring the cages and their design

Language of Instruction : Turkish

Work Place : Course classes and research unites


  Course Outline /Schedule (Weekly) Planned Learning Activities
Week Subject Student's Preliminary Work Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
1 Cage systems history and their philosophy Reading Literature Oral presentation
2 demonstration of the systems and their elements Reading Literature Oral presentation
3 Cage systems specifics and classification Reading Literature Oral presentation
4 Sample Cage systems Reading Literature Oral presentation excursion on cage systems
5 Routine oprations on Cage systems Reading Literature Oral presentation excursion on cage systems
6 cage and environment Reading Literature Oral presentation excursion on cage systems
7 Cage culture of trout and tilapia Reading Literature Oral presentation
8 Exam Preparetion of exam exam
9 Cage culture of Sea bass and sea bream Reading Literature Oral presentation
10 Cage culture of tuna fish and some alternatives Reading Literature Oral presentation
11 Home work presentations Reading Literature Oral presentation
12 Home work presentations Reading Literature Oral presentation
13 Home work presentations Reading Literature Oral presentation
14 Home work presentations Reading Literature Oral presentation
15 Home work presentations Reading Literature Oral presentation
16/17 Exam Preparetion of exam test exam


  Required Course Resources
Resource Type Resource Name
Recommended Course Material(s)  International sources, and web sites
 Dikel S. 2005. Cage Aquaculture. Book.
Required Course Material(s)


  Assessment Methods and Assessment Criteria
Semester/Year Assessments Number Contribution Percentage
    Mid-term Exams (Written, Oral, etc.) 1 60
    Homeworks/Projects/Others 1 40
Total 100
Rate of Semester/Year Assessments to Success 40
 
Final Assessments 100
Rate of Final Assessments to Success 60
Total 100

  Contribution of the Course to Key Learning Outcomes
# Key Learning Outcome Contribution*
1 Using the informatics and communicating technology 3
2 Gaining competence to determine the current status of aquatic resources and its sustainable use, water pollution and control, and biotechnology areas. 3
3 Ability to act in accordance with the regulation, social, scientific, cultural, and ethical values on fisheries field 4
4 Having knowledge on “natural and applied sciences” and “basic engineering”; combination of their theoretical and practical knowledge on fisheries engineering applications. 5
5 assessment of data scientifically on fisheries engineering, determining and solving the problems 5
6 Uses theoretical and practical knowledge in the field of fisheries to design; investigates and interprets events and phenomena usig scientific methods and techniques. 5
7 Collecting data in fisheries science, making the basic experimental studies, evaluating the results, identifying the problems and developing methods of solution 4
8 Having plan any study related to fisheries science as an individually, managing and consulting 5
9 Learning the knowledge by the determining learning needs; developing positive attitude towards lifelong learning 2
10 Communicating oral and written in expertise field, monitoring the seminars and meeting in expertise field, following the foreign language publication 5
11 Improving life-long learning attitude and using the information to the public interest. 3
12 Having skills to apply modern techniques and computational tools necessary for engineering applications. 5
13 Having ability to promote the study about aquaculture techniques by saving the natural environment, fishery diseases, fishing and processing technology, structure of fishery sector, problems and solution of their expertise field 3
14 Having ability to promote the study about aquaculture techniques by saving the natural environment, fishery diseases, fishing and processing technology, structure of fishery sector, problems and solution of their expertise field 3
15 Improves constantly itself , as well as professional development scientific, social, cultural and artistic fields according to his/her interests and abilities identifying needs of learning. 0
* Contribution levels are between 0 (not) and 5 (maximum).

  Student Workload - ECTS
Works Number Time (Hour) Total Workload (Hour)
Course Related Works
    Class Time (Exam weeks are excluded) 14 2 28
    Out of Class Study (Preliminary Work, Practice) 14 2 28
Assesment Related Works
    Homeworks, Projects, Others 1 10 10
    Mid-term Exams (Written, Oral, etc.) 1 5 5
    Final Exam 1 5 5
Total Workload: 76
Total Workload / 25 (h): 3.04
ECTS Credit: 3